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introspective, a.|ɪntrəʊˈspɛktɪv|
[f. L. intrōspect-, ppl. stem of intrōspicĕre to introspect + -ive: cf. inspective, respective, etc.]
Having the quality of looking within; examining into one's own thoughts, feelings, or mental condition, or expressing such examination; of, pertaining to, characterized by, or given to introspection. introspective psychology, psychology based on introspection and on the direct observation of one's own mental states.
1820Southey Lett. (1856) III. 171 Whom I..well remember as a mild, melancholy, introspective man. 1878W. James in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. liii. 29 Those whose highest flights are articles in the Popular Science Monthly will talk of the exploded superstitions of introspective psychology. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. i. 10 With Wyatt and Surrey English poetry became at a bound the most personal and..the most ‘introspective’ in Europe. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 118 She was very young, and not in the least introspective. 1931R. S. Woodworth Contemp. Schools Psychol. ii. 17 What we do find..is..more precise formulation of the aim of introspective psychology. a1942B. Malinowski Sci. Theory of Culture (1944) vii. 71 Whether we use introspective psychology, and say that understanding means identification of the mental processes, or whether, as behaviourists, we affirm that his response to the integral stimulus of the situation follows lines familiar to us from our own experiences, does not change the argument profoundly. 1951E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. iii. 44 Other anthropologists were later left in a similar way in the fashion of introspective psychology.
Hence introˈspectively adv.; introˈspectiveness; introˈspectivism nonce-wd. [see -ism]; introˈspector, one who practises introspection.
1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. ii. i. 164 Each feeling..which when introspectively contemplated appears to be homogeneous. 1874Contemp. Rev. XXIII. 960 A..girl, whose self-condemning grief has something of the introspectiveness wrongly imputed to all Mr. Browning's characters. 1884Seeley in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 667 Is it, then, true that Christianity is a system of morbid and melancholy introspectiveness? 1893Morris & Bax Socialism iii. 58 The individualistic introspectivism of the Christianity of the decaying empire. |